Disciplinary applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts

Godbey, Samantha, et. al. (2017). Disciplinary applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts. Chicago: ACRL.

In 25 chapters divided into sections mirroring ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education–Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, and Searching as Strategic Exploration–Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts explores threshold concepts as an idea and the specifics of what the concepts contained in the Framework look like in disciplinary contexts. The chapters cover many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences, and a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students.